ssential reading for all MA students on TESOL and Applied Linguistics courses, this Reader introduces a range of theories of second language acquisition and the contested explanations of effective language learning.
Language Acquisition and Language Socialization: Ecological Perspectives (Advances in Applied Linguistics Series)
This is an outstanding collection of papers by top scholars in a range of disciplines who shed stimulating, complementary insights into the social, cognitive and semiotic frameworks that shape both the acquisition of language, and the constitution of social actors through that process.
Gender Dimension of Social Change: The Contribution of Dynamic Women's Life CoursesThis title explores the potential of longitudinal analysis as a powerful tool for appreciating the gender dimension of social change. The authors use longitudinal data to provide new insights into the changing dynamics of women's life courses today. Contributors view the data from a policy perspective and use comparative analysis from Britain, Germany, The Netherlands, Sweden and Japan to expand our understanding of women's life courses and systems of inequality.
“An essential synopsis of essential readings that every human geographer must read. It is highly recommended for those just embarking on their careers as well as those who need a reminder of how and why geography moved from the margins of social thought to its very core.” -Barney Warf, Florida State University
Much Ado About Nothing boasts one of Shakespeare's most delightful heroines, most dancing wordplay, and the endearing spectacle of intellectual and social self-importance bested by the desire to love and be loved in return. It offers both the dancing wit of the "merry war" between the sexes, and a sobering vision of the costs of that combat for both men and women. Shakespeare dramatizes a social world in all of its vibrant particulars, in which characters are shaped by the relations between social convention and individual choice.
